British Guiana

British Guiana (now Guyana) is a small country on the northern coast of the south american continent. It is bordered by Brazil, Suriname, Venezuela, and the Atlantic ocean.

England grasped the country from the Dutch in 1796 and first ruled all three Guianas as Essequebo and Demarary, and from 1837 the three little Guianas in a row became French Guiana (Cayenne), Dutch Guiana (Suriname) and British Guiana. Finally in 1966 that British part was renamed Guyana.

Population: about one and a quarter million

Language: English

Capital: Georgetown

The pleasures of homosexualism are against the law in Guyana, as they shamefully were in Britain itself (the mother-country) until very recently.

Monetary system:
20 Stivers = 1 Guilder until 1836
Thereafter 4 Pence = 1 Groat
50 Pence = 1 British Guiana Dollar
100 Cents from 1967

½ Stiver:
1813 EF $148

1 Stiver:
1813 EF $148

¼ Guilder:
1833 EF $152

Four Pence (1 Groat):
1837 William IIII VF $92
1838 Victoria EF $197
1843 VF $62
***1844
1849 VF $60
***1854
***1855
1891 EF $190 normal strike, not in Krause
1910 VF $32
1917 EF $122
1918 VF $18
1921 EF $89
1926 EF $152
1935 EF $178
1936 EF $32
1940 EF $25
1941 EF $20
1942 EF $20
1943 EF $20

1 Cent:
1967 BU $20
1969 BU $20
1970 EF $14
1972 BU $20
1974 EF $14
***1976

5 Cents:
1967 EF $14
1974 EF $14
1977 old EF $14

10 Cents:
1967 EF $14
1974 BU $20

25 Cents:
1967 EF $14
1974 EF $14
1975 EF $14
1977 old EF $14

50 Cents:
***1967

[The missing Groats are probably filed with the UK coins, and the other two in the yet to be sorted bag.]